In article <ef2ef747.0202131535.7eca2180@posting.google.com>,
sarken@fiberia.com (Bulane Sarken) writes:
|>Hi,
|>
|>I am thinking of write a small Qusestion Answering system for my
|>master degree requirement. I took NLP and IR courses before. Is this
|>task still too hard? I hope some people here will give me some
|>pointers and paper list to start with. Any suggestion will be also
|>appreciated.

You might want to also look into some of the commercialized
work in this area. AskJeeves is often the one that comes to
mind. Others you might find worth looking into include
answerFriend, EasyAsk, InQuizit, iPhrase and Primus (which
bought AnswerLogic). (DISCLOSURE: Our parent company
made a venture investment in iPhrase last year.) It is
interesting to compare and contrast these companies, their
approaches and targeted markets with each other as well as
with the direction of the TREC QA community. It should
also provide you with a much broader view of the QA space
than focusing on TREC alone.